Scholarly development of a set of field-specific graduate attributes for youth mental health practitioners.
Abstract
This article describes a process, informed by the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), to develop a set of field-specific graduate attributes for youth mental health practitioners as the first phase in a wider course redevelopment project. As teaching staff at the Centre for Youth Mental Health at the University of Melbourne, Australia, we undertook this research to inform the development of a new Master of Youth Mental Health program. The process and results of the research, including the set of graduate attributes that were developed, are reported here.Downloads
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